Missa Solemnis in D Op. 123 - full score

SKU: CA.4068950

ISBN 9790007254445. Key: D major. Latin.

Beethoven described his Missa solemnis several times as his greatest work. Coming from the heart, it was intended to touch and move audiences. Beethoven worked long and intensively on the composition in order to give what he felt was adequate expression to the text. In its length and musical demands, the Missa solemnis goes far beyond typical liturgical settings; for good reason, the premiere took place in a concert hall. With this arrangement for chamber orchestra (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, timpani and strings, plus organ ad lib), smaller choirs, as well as choirs with more limited resources of space or finance, can now perform this work too. However, the symphonic character and wide dynamic range of the work remain. The scoring of 7 instead of 18 winds offers an optimal balance between transparency and orchestral sound. All the vocal parts (soloists and chorus) are identical with the original version, so that the vocal score and chorus score of that version can be used. Major mass can also be performed by smaller choir Wind and brass parts of the original version reduced to just seven single instruments Vocal scores and choral scores from the original version can be used. carus plus: the work (original version) is available in carus music, the choir app, and in the practice CD series Carus Choir Coach. Score available separately - see item CA.4068900.

SKU: BR.PB-5329

ISBN 9790004210420. 10 x 12.5 inches.

According to the date inscribed in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's autograph score, the present mass was composed in March 1780. The instrumental setting (oboes, trumpets and timpani add color and festive splendor to the work) rightly suggests that the work was in all likelihood performed with the Church Sonata K. 336 at the Easter high mass in the Salzburg cathedral. Since Archbishop Hieronymus Count Colloredo wanted the mass text to be treated as succinctly as possible, Mozart offered him a richly orchestrated Missa solemnis in the terse form of a Missa brevis.The brilliant, festive character of the Mass K. 337 is abruptly interrupted by a powerful Benedictus in a harsh A minor, the most striking and revolutionary movement in all of Mozart's Masses, in the strictest contrapuntal style ... (Alfred Einstein). What could have inspired Mozart to such unexpected rigor? But there is another surprise yet: while the dark drama of the Holy Week seems to radiate from this Benedictus, the following Agnus Dei in the distant key of E flat major sounds, with its soprano solo and concertante oboe, bassoon and organ, like a song of thanksgiving filled with the warmth and light of Easter.Other features worth noting are the three unisons between the alto and bass heard at the Deus pater omnipotens in the Gloria (bars 22-32), the a cappella illumination of the words Jesu Christe found a little later (bar 62) and the descending chromaticism evocative of death at the Crucifixus in the Credo. (Incidentally, Mozart had initially planned a different movement for the Credo of this mass, superscribed Tempo di Chiaconna; he wrote out 136 bars but, for some unknown reason, never completed it.)While the Coronation Mass K. 317 of 1779 is one of Mozart's most well-known mass settings, its later composed frllow piece K. 337 - Mozart's last completed mass before the great C minor fragment K. 427 (417a) - has been paid less attention, even though it is an outstanding example of the Mozartian mass type and contains parallels to the Coronation Mass in its disposition and in the structure of its various movements. The score and piano reduction of this new edition were prepared on the basis of the autograph (Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek/Vienna, dass. no. Mus. Hs. 18 97512) and the Salzburg performance material (Staats- und Stadtbibliothek/Augsburg, dass. no. Hl. Kreuz 9). We wish to thank both libraries for putting the source material at our disposal.Franz Beyer, Munich, Spring 1998.

SKU: CA.2790100

ISBN 9790007293611. Key: B flat major. Latin.

Anyone who is familiar with Bruckner’s symphonies and great masses will probably be astonished upon hearing his Missa solemnis of 1854: can the tradition of the Viennese classics still be so clearly evident in a work by Bruckner? And yet, isn’t it also possible to hear much of Bruckner’s later style?

With this edition, the earliest of Bruckner’s orchestral masses is now available as an Urtext edition. It reflects the latest scholarly research, and the complete performance material is available on sale. Compared with Bruckner’s late masses, the demands on chorus and soloists are considerably less. The horns play in just two movements and can be replaced by trombones. This rarely performed work offers many choirs an exciting alternative to the better-known masses – not only for the Bruckner anniversary in 2024!

SKU: BR.PB-5086

ISBN 9790004208373. 9 x 12 inches.

Leopold Mozart hatte auf dem Titelblatt der 5 Messen in C diese und die Messe KV 257 als ,,Missa Longa bezeichnet. Hat sich fur KV 257 der Name ,,Grosse Credo-Messe eingeburgert, so ist der Messe KV 262 die ursprungliche Benennung ,,Missa Longa erhalten geblieben. Der grosse Umfang (,,Longa) und die starke Besetzung weisen das Werk der Gattung der Missa solemnis zu. Stilistisch kommt einerseits die aus dem Bereich der Vokalmusik stammende Kontrapunktik zur Geltung, wenngleich dem Chor keine uberragende Bedeutung zukommt, anderseits spielt das Orchester mit seinen der gleichzeitigen Instrumentalmusik entlehnten Formelementen eine entscheidende Rolle. Die das ,,Gloria und ,,Credo beschliessenden Fugen lassen die Messe dem Prunkstil angehoren.

SKU: BR.PB-5084

ISBN 9790004208359. 9 x 12 inches.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the present Missa in C K. 66 in Salzburg in October 1769 for the first mass held by Father Dominicus (Cajetan Hagenauer,1746-1811), who was friends with Mozart.The Dominicus Mass, just like the Waisenhaus Mass in c K. 139 (47a) written shortly before, belongs to the genre of the missa solemnis, which was traditionally performed at festive occasions.The first edition of the Dominicus Mass was published by Breitkopf & Hartel in 1877 within the Complete Edition Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Werke.

SKU: M7.DOHR-23025

ISBN 9790202010259.